iPhone Users Account For Two Thirds Of Smartphone Video Watching

(12:41 pm PDT, Mar 11th)

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If you love to watch videos on your smartphone to kill time, odds are, you own an iPhone. For some reason Android users don’t watch nearly as much video on their smartphones as iOS users, even though Android has more marketshare.

The Web video company Ooyala, published a report today that showed over two-thirds of mobile video was watched an iPhone, while Android only watched the other third.

Even though Ooyala doesn’t have access to all the Web’s video everywhere, the company services over 200 million unique viewers worldwide, so they’ve got a pretty good idea on the way people watch video.

It’s interesting that even though Android has matured as a platform and has many of the same software and hardware features as iOS, Android owners use their device very differently from iPhone owners. Does that say something about the type of people that buy Android phones, or is there something about the OS that makes people less inclined to waste hours watching Harlem Shake videos? Let us hear your thoughts in the comments.

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  • TheBasicMind

    So it’s now clear, less Videos, far less web surfing, way less use of in flight Wi-Fi, lower returns for advertising, far lower returns for app sales and in app-purchases (with very few exceptions). It’s becoming clear a large proportion of the Android owning market have got Android not because they want to use a smartphone but simply because they wanted a new phone on contract and found it runs Android. In the subsidised phone market, there is a big difference between market share and committed mind-share.

  • iPhart

    the answer is:

    Because Android is more functional OS, the users can use most of the things not only online. They can transfer easy the movies and music offline , and download them for free. And do not depend so much to online services like iOS users. Of course big screen owners watch more moves on their devices and browse more. They use their devices more like pocket PCs. And the iOS users are for milking, because they have not options .

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